id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-008377 National abortion study finds out-of-touch labels, knowledge gaps, appetite for moral discussion | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 910 24 31 Tricia Bruce Sponsored by Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, “How Americans Understand Abortion” is the largest known in-depth interview study of American attitudes on abortion. The study also offers a set of recommendations for fostering a healthier public conversation about abortion, including expanded education in science, law and moral reasoning; realizing the limits of position labels to fully express a person’s point of view; focusing on reducing the social circumstances that give rise to abortion decisions; and attending to the personal impact from which someone may be expressing their views, without immediately translating that into a political position. cache/news-008377.html txt/news-008377.txt